Mary Ammirato-Collins

Mary Ammirato-Collins (or Mary Collins Ammirato, born April 3, 1908, date of death unknown) was an artist and poet born in Houston, Texas. She was a student at the Académie Julian in Paris. She exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1937. Mary also had a showing of her enamels on copper during a visit to the US in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mary lived in the Canary Islands with husband Claudio Ammirato, who was an artist and composer, and a physicist. Both who were long time friends of heiress Eleanor Post Hutton. Mary was a travel companion of Eleanor's and also a Ziegfeld Follies girl in New York City where she met Claudio.

Ammirato-Collins wrote the libretto for her husband's opera, Paradise Lost (A comedy for Modern Times).

Selected exhibitions

• 1973 – Woodstock Gallery, London (first one-woman exhibition)
• 1974 – Art Alliance, Philadelphia (first American exhibition)
• 1976 – Casino de Tenerife, Spain
• 1976 – Provincial Palace, Zaragoza, Spain

Books

Ammirato was the author of several books of poems, some of which were illustrated by her husband Claudio Ammirato:

• The Beach at Sierra Helada (1935)
• Tapestry of Sleep (1936)
• Dustless Beauty (1937)
• Palm Tree Daughters (1938)
• Red Apples of Fall (1947)
• Spring in Olympus (1939).

References

General references

• Weisberg, Gabriel P.; Becker, Jane R. (1999). Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian. New York: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-2756-7.
• Hamilton, Gerald (1976). Expone Mary Collins Ammirato. Madrid: Istituto Italiano di Cultura. OCLC 501154660.
• Woodstock Gallery (1973). "Catalogue of exhibit 24 April to 12 May 1973". Enamels. London. OCLC 501154659.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)